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It has been one hundred years since Canadian born John Leslie advertised his first
major product, a steam powered snowplow for railroad locomotives. By 1905 The
Leslie Company was operating a foundry, machine shop and small office in
Lyndhurst, New Jersey, and building a reputation for producing reliable steam
pressure valves and regulators. The company was a major supplier of steam
control equipment for military and merchant ships during both World Wars and has
continued as a supplier of military/commercial marine service products. Leslie's
product line grew over the years to incorporate equipment for industrial and
utility customers, and in 1968 the company moved into a larger plant in
Parsippany, New Jersey.
In Parsippany, Leslie built on decades of experience manufacturing high
quality valves for military and industrial markets to solidify its reputation as
a premium quality manufacturer, with products such as the venerable "Super
G" Series regulators and the Class DLO control valve line.
After moving our headquarters to a newly built 150,000 sq. ft. facility in
Tampa, Florida, Leslie broadened its scope to encompass a comprehensive array of
products for total fluid management of steam and other fluids. In 1990, Watts
Industries, Inc., one of the worlds largest independent valve manufacturers,
purchased Leslie Controls, Inc.
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1994 marked the introduction of Aeroflow, one of
the most innovative and diverse family of control valves in the world. The Watts
acquisition provides a broader scope of fluid control products distributed
throughout the global marketplace. Watts and its subsidiaries design,
manufacture and sell an extensive line of valves to the plumbing and heating,
municipal water, power, chemical, petrochemical, industrial, and oil and gas
markets. Our 1995 aquisition of the K&M Valve Company added the widely
recognized K-Max Rotary, GTB Top & Bottom Guided, GTW Three Way, and Synflow
Sweep Angle control valve lines to our Process Chemical and Oil & Gas
Industry offerings. With 250 employees, Leslie Controls, Inc., has grown to
serve power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical process, HVAC, food
processing, commercial marine, and military marine markets through a network of
over 100 manufacturer's representatives worldwide. |
